Bryson DeChambeau’s prodigious drives and impressive U.S. Open Championship victory has set off a national conversation that with just a little imagination could be compared to polarization seen elsewhere in the topsy-turvy year that is 2020.

For only the second time in their history, your Houston Texans have started the NFL season with four consecutive losses. As some (not this writer) say when things are not going well, it is what it is.

The tournament is coming up fast, with a curious date of Oct. 19-22. Curious because this is the first time in tournament history that it will be contested over four days.

The 27 year-old former SMU Mustang physics major and U.S. Amateur champion has now won seven times on the PGA Tour and has at least temporarily quieted those whose assessment of his approach to the game just wouldn’t, couldn’t lead to success.

The third round is scheduled to end around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, to clear the airways for Alabama vs. LSU. The final round will end by 1:45 p.m., leaving about a one-hour gap before the NFL late game. Let’s just call it the spirit of cooperation.

Tournament officials have made the decision to postpone the Sept. 11 Lawrence J. Del Papa Golf Tournament because of Lighthouse’s involvement with Hurricane Laura relief.

Next week’s Tour Championship will be hard pressed to match it. And so, the discussion continues on how to improve the entertainment value of the playoffs next year.

Those who focused on the approaching weather events need not beat themselves up for missing the Northern Trust Open. Hurricane Johnson, as in Dustin, blew through Norton, Massachusetts 30 strokes under par, which must have left second place Harris English, a blistering 19 under par, wondering just what hit him.

The series of three tournaments, with a prize fund of $60 million in bonus money ($15 million winner’s share), begins with a 125-player field on Aug. 20 and ends Sept. 7.

Seventeen-year-old Rose Zhang, of the United States, defeated defending champion Gabriela Ruffels (Australia) to win the United States Women’s Amateur Golf Championship on  Saturday.

Reading the article brought a pleasant memory of my late mother-in-law, who really enjoyed watching golf on TV, and truly loved Phil Mickelson, whom she simply called “my boy.” At least once a year, we would review the basics of scoring as they apply to stroke play. Pleasant memories are helpful during a pandemic.

I had watched the legendary Jack Nicklaus vocally juggle, in one breath saying he would do nothing to throttle bombers and in the next, chastising golf’s governing bodies for not doing something about the golf ball.

Sonny’s Place permanently closed. Imagine my shock when I learned that someone might even think about such a thing. Fake news if there ever was any.

Paspalum performs well on golf courses, with empirical evidence observable at Moody Gardens Golf Course, because it is salt tolerant and can be planted by sodding, sprigging or seeding.

Most any recreational golfer with a handicap higher than 10 will readily confess to completing swings all too often in under half a second; in my regular group, that’s known as a “Zorro.”

Former NFL player Mike Holmes (Ball High School class of 1969), chairman of the Galveston Professional Athletes (GPA) organization, has announced the 2nd Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament.

Golf sans fans was no biggie for me. The Colonial, as well as the next four tournaments, will be good viewing despite the absence of galleries, as all will have strong fields.

Just as that 10-foot birdie putt is stone-cold dead, only to veer left like a Heisman running back, the bluefin sometimes veers under the boat or tangles the line in the propeller.

We can learn a lot by looking at golf history, just as we can learn a lot about the world as is today by looking at the way it was once.